Use SBT To Build Pure Java Project

Question

Historically I have used Ant+Ivy or Maven for building my Java projects. I\'m now looking at non-xml based solutions.

Gradle can compile, jar and publish my project with

Answer 1

Sure, you can. Example configuration:

name := "myName"
version := "0.1"
organization := "org.myorganization"

javacOptions in (Compile, compile) ++= Seq("-source", "1.8", "-target", "1.8", "-g:lines")

crossPaths := false // drop off Scala suffix from artifact names.
autoScalaLibrary := false // exclude scala-library from dependencies

Summing up. I love SBT, but I felt necessary to write the full build with all the tricky parts of using it for java. Note that this setup might be better than a maven one because you'll have nice features such as incremental testing or even incremental runs. Also consider adding sbt-assembly plugin if you have dependencies and want to create fat jars (executables).